Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,548 6,431 6,880
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.99% 23.30% 20.03%
As % of the General category 34.32% 36.55% 34.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,404 4,324 4,801
10th Percentile £360 £348 £363
25th Percentile £450 £420 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% -1.25%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £822 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 109 186
10th Percentile £16.80 £16.22 £14.50
25th Percentile £21.93 £20.86 £22.19
Median hourly rate £43.96 £32.89 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +33.66% -13.72% +39.94%
75th Percentile £57.25 £63.75 £42.44
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £30.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +44.13% -19.99% +31.49%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 24,904 17,593 19,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.33% 63.73% 57.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,956 11,237 12,731
10th Percentile £313 £281 £300
25th Percentile £415 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £656
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,842 930 1,385
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.34 £13.88
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.37 £16.82
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.66 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +32.46% -32.69% +27.07%
75th Percentile £64.77 £50.94 £58.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.88 £70.11
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £25.32 £36.17
% change year-on-year +30.33% -29.99% +18.42%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 27 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 5,152 £585 -2.50% 2,889
North of England 0 1,315 £500 +6.50% 766
South East -1 737 £501 -4.52% 887
North West +1 693 £492 +9.33% 400
Midlands 0 634 £500 +11.11% 451
Yorkshire 0 568 £517 +6.56% 265
West Midlands +1 488 £514 +8.21% 262
South West -4 384 £525 -4.55% 300
East of England +8 213 £530 -7.83% 203
East Midlands -3 141 £500 +19.05% 188
North East -17 54 £500 +14.29% 108
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 288 (3.37%) Confluence
2 220 (2.57%) SharePoint
3 79 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 72 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 52 (0.61%) Apache
6 40 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
7 29 (0.34%) CMS
8 27 (0.32%) SAS
9 26 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.18%) CICS
10 15 (0.18%) IIS
11 13 (0.15%) Jupyter
12 12 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 11 (0.13%) Camunda
14 8 (0.094%) Ethereum
14 8 (0.094%) WebLogic
15 6 (0.070%) Appian
16 5 (0.058%) WordPress
17 4 (0.047%) ArcGIS
17 4 (0.047%) JBoss
Applications
1 457 (5.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 176 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 153 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 151 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
5 92 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 61 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 37 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.11%) Trello
9 6 (0.070%) Sketch
10 5 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
10 5 (0.058%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
10 5 (0.058%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.035%) Adobe Premiere
11 3 (0.035%) Final Cut Pro
11 3 (0.035%) Notion
12 2 (0.023%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.023%) EngageOne
12 2 (0.023%) InVision
13 1 (0.012%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 316 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 113 (1.32%) NetSuite
3 104 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
4 90 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
5 83 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
6 62 (0.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 58 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
8 53 (0.62%) Oracle General Ledger
9 51 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
10 48 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
11 40 (0.47%) Aladdin
12 38 (0.44%) SAP FI
13 34 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
14 31 (0.36%) Workday HCM
15 29 (0.34%) SAP CO
16 27 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
17 26 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
18 22 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
18 22 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
19 20 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1,388 (16.24%) Azure
2 997 (11.66%) AWS
3 586 (6.86%) Power Platform
4 454 (5.31%) GCP
5 299 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
6 293 (3.43%) SaaS
7 263 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
8 244 (2.85%) GitHub
9 213 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
10 189 (2.21%) Entra ID
11 186 (2.18%) Snowflake
12 131 (1.53%) Serverless
13 111 (1.30%) Amazon S3
14 106 (1.24%) Power Automate
15 103 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
16 98 (1.15%) OCI
17 96 (1.12%) dbt
18 93 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
19 92 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
20 86 (1.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 168 (1.97%) Firewall
2 129 (1.51%) Network Security
3 87 (1.02%) VPN
4 83 (0.97%) DNS
5 57 (0.67%) TCP/IP
6 44 (0.51%) BGP
6 44 (0.51%) WAN
7 41 (0.48%) SSL
8 39 (0.46%) DHCP
9 31 (0.36%) LAN
10 30 (0.35%) HTTP
11 29 (0.34%) Multicast
12 27 (0.32%) OSPF
13 25 (0.29%) VLAN
14 22 (0.26%) Wireless
15 20 (0.23%) Cisco ASA
15 20 (0.23%) Internet
16 18 (0.21%) MPLS
17 17 (0.20%) DMZ
17 17 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 494 (5.78%) Power BI
2 252 (2.95%) SQL Server
3 239 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
4 169 (1.98%) Metadata
5 154 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
6 146 (1.71%) Relational Database
7 130 (1.52%) Tableau
8 121 (1.42%) Data Lake
9 76 (0.89%) NoSQL
10 69 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
11 65 (0.76%) Oracle Database
12 63 (0.74%) BigQuery
13 61 (0.71%) Big Data
14 52 (0.61%) MongoDB
15 49 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
16 48 (0.56%) Power Query
17 47 (0.55%) Delta Lake
18 43 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 42 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
20 37 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 605 (7.08%) JIRA
2 224 (2.62%) Git
3 142 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 89 (1.04%) GitLab
5 47 (0.55%) JUnit
6 39 (0.46%) Cucumber
7 38 (0.44%) Selenium
8 27 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 26 (0.30%) Visual Studio
10 24 (0.28%) ERwin
11 23 (0.27%) SonarQube
12 22 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 22 (0.26%) Postman
12 22 (0.26%) REST Assured
13 20 (0.23%) Maven
13 20 (0.23%) Zephyr
14 19 (0.22%) TeamCity
15 18 (0.21%) MLflow
16 15 (0.18%) ER Studio
16 15 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
General
1 2,481 (29.02%) Social Skills
2 1,649 (19.29%) Banking
3 1,203 (14.07%) Analytical Skills
4 481 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 407 (4.76%) Legal
6 335 (3.92%) Financial Institution
7 325 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
8 320 (3.74%) Front Office
9 313 (3.66%) Investment Banking
10 309 (3.61%) Retail
11 224 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
12 195 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
13 164 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 157 (1.84%) Manufacturing
15 148 (1.73%) Local Government
16 145 (1.70%) Marketing
17 142 (1.66%) Billing
18 134 (1.57%) General Ledger
19 132 (1.54%) Law
20 125 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,261 (14.75%) Analyst
2 949 (11.10%) Lead
3 948 (11.09%) Senior
4 862 (10.08%) Developer
5 786 (9.20%) Architect
6 633 (7.41%) Business Analyst
7 612 (7.16%) Project Manager
8 536 (6.27%) Consultant
9 294 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
10 287 (3.36%) Data Engineer
11 213 (2.49%) Financial Analyst
12 210 (2.46%) Senior Manager
13 184 (2.15%) Data Analyst
14 182 (2.13%) Accountant
15 179 (2.09%) Java Developer
16 170 (1.99%) Software Engineer
17 166 (1.94%) IT Manager
18 165 (1.93%) Programme Manager
19 161 (1.88%) Senior Developer
20 159 (1.86%) Finance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (3.33%) REST
2 265 (3.10%) .NET
3 255 (2.98%) React
4 236 (2.76%) Kafka
5 204 (2.39%) Oracle Fusion
6 174 (2.04%) Middleware
7 162 (1.90%) Spring
8 153 (1.79%) Spring Boot
9 119 (1.39%) PySpark
10 118 (1.38%) RESTful
11 112 (1.31%) Redux
12 107 (1.25%) Node.js
13 85 (0.99%) JSON
14 81 (0.95%) AngularJS
15 78 (0.91%) OAuth
15 78 (0.91%) XML
16 61 (0.71%) SOAP
17 59 (0.69%) .NET Framework
17 59 (0.69%) CSS
18 58 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 427 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 395 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 361 (4.22%) Cloud Native
4 241 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
5 211 (2.47%) Data Structures
5 211 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 163 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
6 163 (1.91%) Fixed Income
7 158 (1.85%) Derivative
8 151 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 151 (1.77%) Virtual Team
9 150 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 150 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 128 (1.50%) AI Agents
11 120 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
12 115 (1.35%) Equities
13 103 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
14 95 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
14 95 (1.11%) Security Posture
15 89 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 316 (3.70%) Windows
2 259 (3.03%) Linux
3 137 (1.60%) Unix
4 70 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 40 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (0.44%) Apple iOS
6 38 (0.44%) Solaris
7 34 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 30 (0.35%) Android
9 28 (0.33%) zOS
10 26 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 18 (0.21%) AIX
12 10 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 8 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
13 8 (0.094%) VMS
14 6 (0.070%) HPUX
14 6 (0.070%) SUSE
15 4 (0.047%) MVS
15 4 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
16 2 (0.023%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,929 (22.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,789 (20.93%) Agile
3 1,205 (14.10%) Migration
4 1,111 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1,034 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 975 (11.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 964 (11.28%) AI
8 908 (10.62%) DevOps
9 886 (10.36%) CI/CD
10 874 (10.22%) Analytics
11 857 (10.03%) ERP
12 813 (9.51%) Decision-Making
13 742 (8.68%) Roadmaps
14 720 (8.42%) Validation
15 690 (8.07%) Data Modelling
16 678 (7.93%) Project Management
17 645 (7.55%) User Acceptance Testing
18 633 (7.41%) Change Management
19 610 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
20 564 (6.60%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,137 (13.30%) SQL
2 1,049 (12.27%) Python
3 578 (6.76%) Java
4 362 (4.23%) C#
5 241 (2.82%) JavaScript
6 240 (2.81%) TypeScript
7 217 (2.54%) PowerShell
8 93 (1.09%) Bash
9 83 (0.97%) PL/SQL
10 70 (0.82%) Go
11 67 (0.78%) T-SQL
12 65 (0.76%) Shell Script
13 62 (0.73%) C++
14 59 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 48 (0.56%) VBA
16 47 (0.55%) Bicep
17 38 (0.44%) Kotlin
18 34 (0.40%) Scala
19 32 (0.37%) Apex Code
20 26 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 698 (8.17%) Security Cleared
2 654 (7.65%) Degree
3 497 (5.81%) SC Cleared
4 221 (2.59%) PMP
5 195 (2.28%) PMI Certification
6 184 (2.15%) ACCA
7 160 (1.87%) CIMA
8 151 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 145 (1.70%) CISSP
10 124 (1.45%) DV Cleared
11 112 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
12 91 (1.06%) Azure Certification
13 81 (0.95%) CISM
14 71 (0.83%) Master's Degree
15 66 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
16 55 (0.64%) AWS Certification
17 51 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
18 44 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
19 37 (0.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
20 33 (0.39%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 553 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 365 (4.27%) QA
3 336 (3.93%) PMO
4 260 (3.04%) GDPR
5 144 (1.68%) NIST
6 118 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 100 (1.17%) IFRS
8 97 (1.13%) Accessibility
9 95 (1.11%) SLA
10 86 (1.01%) GRC
11 79 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 61 (0.71%) GAAP
13 54 (0.63%) ISO 20022
14 49 (0.57%) PCI DSS
15 36 (0.42%) SEPA
16 33 (0.39%) Solvency II
17 28 (0.33%) SOC 2
18 27 (0.32%) PSD2
19 25 (0.29%) MiFID
20 24 (0.28%) COBIT
System Software
1 248 (2.90%) Docker
2 202 (2.36%) Active Directory
3 60 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (0.29%) vSphere
6 19 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 16 (0.19%) RACF
7 16 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.14%) NFS
10 6 (0.070%) IAG
10 6 (0.070%) KVM
11 5 (0.058%) GPFS
11 5 (0.058%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.047%) Oracle RAC
13 3 (0.035%) ACF2
13 3 (0.035%) GridGain
13 3 (0.035%) SRDF
14 2 (0.023%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 372 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 286 (3.35%) Terraform
3 144 (1.68%) Ansible
4 84 (0.98%) Grafana
5 72 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 64 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 50 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 49 (0.57%) SCCM
9 26 (0.30%) Control-M
10 18 (0.21%) Progress Chef
11 17 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
12 16 (0.19%) vRealize
13 14 (0.16%) Argo
14 13 (0.15%) OMEGAMON
15 12 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.14%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.14%) Nessus
16 11 (0.13%) CASB
16 11 (0.13%) Packer
16 11 (0.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1,146 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 724 (8.47%) Oracle
3 651 (7.62%) SAP
4 319 (3.73%) ServiceNow
5 267 (3.12%) Databricks
6 211 (2.47%) Salesforce
7 180 (2.11%) Google
8 126 (1.47%) Workday
9 122 (1.43%) IBM
10 121 (1.42%) VMware
11 100 (1.17%) Splunk
12 95 (1.11%) Cisco
13 81 (0.95%) CyberArk
14 62 (0.73%) OpenAI
15 58 (0.68%) Citrix
16 54 (0.63%) Ariba
17 53 (0.62%) Sage
18 52 (0.61%) Bloomberg
19 42 (0.49%) Murex
20 41 (0.48%) Informatica